And it wasn’t even close:

2,152,091 to 1,526,959 (58.50% to 41.50%).
Lowndes County went for the Atlanta-power-grab “charter school” amendment
18,606 to 17,619 (51.36% to 48.64%).
The voters of Georgia just sold their children’s educational
birthright for a mess of slick brochures.

The

other ALEC amendment, on multi-year contracts,
passed by

an even wider margin:
2,241,621 to 1,275,809 (63.73% to 36.27%).
Lowndes went for it 20,205 to 14,414 (58.36% to 41.64%).

Apparently Georgia voters will vote for any old thing that’s
submitted to them as a constitutional amendment.

Congratulations, ALEC and Wal-Mart!
You’ve demonstrated money talks and

slick brochures sell.
This was even better for you than

ALEC’s so-called anti-immigration law which the legislature passed
and

that actually devastates Georgia agriculture for
the profit of private prison company CCA.
This time you got the people of Georgia to vote directly against
their own best interests to the benefit of school privatizing
corporations in Virginia and Michigan!

Boo Georgia voters.
You’ve just given

the most corrupt legislature in the country
the ability

to commit you the taxpayers to contracts for decades.
And you’ve just traded your children’s educational birthright
for a mess of slick paper.

-jsq